Do you have questions or concerns about Islam? If so, I need your help.

Perhaps my favorite definition of the word professor is “someone who talks in other people’s sleep.”

As a defense against that, I make occasional attempts, in my lectures, classes, writing, and firesides, to be relevant.

Right now, I’m substantially revising a book that I wrote about Islam a long time ago — its second edition is nearly a quarter of a century old — for a general (largely Mormon) audience.

A lot of water has gone under the proverbial bridge since then.  Small things like a couple of Gulf wars, 9-11, the rise of the “Islamic State,” and so forth.

So this probably won’t be a third edition.  It will be very much different.  For one thing, it will expand (at least a bit) to more coverage of places like Iran, Indonesia,  Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria, and it won’t focus only on the Arabs.

But I want it to be relevant.  I want it to address, however briefly, the questions and concerns that its readers actually have.

So . . .

Could you do me a favor?

If you have particular issues that you would want such a book to address, can you share them with me, either in the comments here (that would be easier for me) or on Facebook?

Seriously.  I can’t promise that I’ll address absolutely everything.  But I want to make a serious effort to do so.

Your help would be much appreciated.